Britain is drastically cutting welfare, pensions, education, social services. It is a country where merely to step into the streets reveals grinding poverty and misery, social deprivation, inequality, yet the UK is responsible for £1 in every £8 spent in global ‘aid’.

This year the UK increases its already bloated foreign aid budget by £14 billion. If that worries you then best not to remember that six-seventh’s of the aid iceberg are unseen.

Other clues to look for include overseas development, debt relief, military aid, economic development assistance, disaster assistance relief and suchlike.

What most people believe to be charity is investment by the elite with the obligation to return investment in manufacturing and corporate services in which they hold substantial shares.

It also secures access to natural resources in which the elite have an interest. Foreign aid greases the palms of arms-buying oligarchs and opens doors to natural resources in which the elite invest.

In effect, politicians use your money to invest in lucrative ventures including the arms trade.

This is why 77.7 per cent of parliamentarians are millionaires, many are multi-millionaires in a country where only 0.07 per cent of the population have assets exceeding £1 million.

Duplicitous parliamentarians occasionally protest but then like pigs to the trough they do whatever is necessary to enrich themselves by perpetuating poverty.

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